j murray uk (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. h/b 268 pages, condition is very good,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good ++/Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Very clean mainly white background dustjacket with small nick to top edge. Very clean black hardback binding with attractively gilt-coloured decorated front board, Gilt-coloured page-edges. Ink writing flyleaf o/w pages very clean.

Boards slightly bowed otherwise VG in Good (grubby) dustwrapper.

Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). Pictorial Illustrations Throughout & Coloured Map of North America. (illustrator). This is the first edition. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Signed or Inscribed.

VG+ in G-VG (slightly rubbed) dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 198 illus maps d/j some wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. J Cornelius (illustrator). pp 177.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 296 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darkened o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. P0cket-sized. 294 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darked o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 341 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, back boards noticeably rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darked o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 297 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darked o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 308 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darkened o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 332 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darked o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 299 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darked o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. Pocket-sized. 303 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown ?leather? hardback binding with darkened chipped spine with no titles. Simple edge impressed and simple gilt-coloured coach lines to edges of both boards, boards lightly rubbed. Wear and ribs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to preliminary pages and last pages, page-edges age-darked o/w pages clean and sound.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. C. Stanfield (illustrator). 1833. A very well-preserved copy, with some very faint toning to page edges but clean and clear across the entire image surface, with lines and shading remaining bold and very presentable. Some wear along left edge from removal from binding, not imposing upon the print itself. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 160 x 220 mm. 1 pages. Item Type: Book. Illustrator: C. Stanfield. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Architecture; Britain/UK; 19th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 11935.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An excellent guide and reference. pp219. Illus. DW in contemporary archival sleeve, so in rather nice condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Excellent history, and wonderfully written. There are many relicts of these times in Gilgit and Chitral to this day. pp.xiii.277. Illus. Map. DW in archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp327 cloth bound. illus.

First edition first printing . Book and dust wrapper in very good condition . Book has previous owners name lable . Book is signed by publisher. Dust wrapper has a loss at top of spine . Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Please see photographs which are of the actual book . Book is in transparent protective wrapper . All books shipped via Royal mail tracked and packed in bubble wrap and cardboard book sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1911. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 8 illustrations and 4 maps. 500 pages. 6489.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 223 foxing on prelims name cut from half title wear to head band with enclosed 18.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 254 pages. slight foxing spine cloth slightly faded.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition, two-tone tooled leather with elaborate floral design - front and back,:" with an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters and their Works. To which is annexed, a New Method of Engraving, or Mezzotinto, Communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert", 5 banded spine, mezzotint frontispiece portrait of author, engraving before pages 108, missing foldout mezzotint, repaired front hinge, cracked rear hinge still attached, uniform soil to frontis and title page, intermittant light foxing in last third of book, contains biography of author as well as dissertation, xxxvi, 140 pages.

Half-Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. The earliest known history of the Afghans, by Ni'mat Allah al-Hawari, an historiographer at the court of Jehangir from 1609-11, much of it mythological such as claiming that the Pashtun people are descended from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The translator, Bernhard Dorn (1805-81), was a German professor at St.Petersburg specialising in the history and languages of Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan, and taught the first ever Pashtu class in Europe. The second volume includes a Pashtu grammar and vocabulary. First volume was published in 1829, the second in 1836. xv, 134, 131pp. Two books bound into a single volume. Modern half-calf binding with marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine with black morocco label with gilt lettering. Leading and lower page edges untrimmed. Half-title and title page slightly frayed at the leading edge and reinforced. Light foxing at beginning and end.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Leather Bound Volume of the Following Pamphlets - 1. The First Lecture of a Course of Botany; Being an Introduction to the Rest -John Martyn 1729. 23 pages and 14 pages of engravings. Published by Richard Reily. 2. An Account of the Culture of Carrots and Their Great Use in Feeding and Fattening Cattle by Robert Billing 1765 31 pages. Published by J Dodsley. 3. Observations on the Diseases, Defects and Injuries in All Kind of Forest Trees by William Forsyth - William Forsyth 1791. 71 pages Published by G NIcol 4. Observations on Such Nutritive Vegetables, as May Be Substituted in the Place of Ordinary Food, in Times of Scarcity - Antoine Augustin Parmentier 1783 80 pages J Murray. 5. A Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants - James Edward Smith 1786 62 Pages Published by George Nicol 6. A Political Enquiry into the Consequences of Enclosing Waste Land and the Causes of the Present High Price of Butchers Meat being The Sentiments of a Society of Farmers in _______shire. 124 pages Published by L Davis 1785. Binding is good only and quite worn in places. Hinges with major cracking but holding together. Loss to the spine tips. Corners rounded. Contents good with age toning to some pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1902. Red cloth, gold decor, gold gilt on top page end. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 311 pages. 6641.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 1st Edition 1977. Signed by John Betjeman on the front flyleaf. A collection of poetry by John Betjeman, a nostalgic volume of thirty three poems.Illustrated throughout.This is a very smart facsimile of the first edition of 1937. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ with a slightly age toned spine. Edges lightly rubbed. Small name to endpaper. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref18687. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete in ten volumes, all uniformly bound in contemporary full speckled calf leather with gilt decoration and red and black leather spine labels. Top edges gilt. Seven engraved frontispieces and one other engraving. The famed coloured marble leaf forms pp111-2 of volume two. Later endpapers, showing some marginal toning. 12mos. Boards a little worn, especially on corners, some of which are rubbed and rounded and spine joints, and spine a little faded. Internally neat, clean and bright barring a little light spotting affecting all volumes and some old marginal damp stains affecting volumes six to eight. Binding remains robust and square on all volumes - volumes 1, 6 and 10 in particular have a little fraying of leather at the head of the spine. A very attractive, tactile set.