london bloomsbury 2005 (75 results)

dark yellow, black & silver gilt hardbound 8vo. (silver gilt pattern on spine). dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. remainder copy in very fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. small black ink dot on top edge, othw. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwr. very fine cond., mint cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xi+337p. acknowl. 2 b&w maps of afghanistan/pakistan. short bio. list of persons mentioned. world history. autobiography. war memoirs. politics. covert operations CIA. war in afganistan. taliban. war on terror. hamid karzai. gulbiddin hekmatyar. jallaluddin haqqani.muhammad fahim. abdu haq. zalmay khalilzad. ahmed shah massoud. haji qadir. burhanuddin rabbani. zahir shah. malik zarin.

, Pavord, Anna, 1940-. The naming of names. The search for order in the world of plants. London : Bloomsbury, 2005, 471pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good with slight wear to edges of cover. CONTENTS: In the beginning -- All men by nature desire to know -- The Alexandrian library -- Pliny the plagiarist -- The medicine men -- Juliana's book -- The Arab influence -- Out of the black hole -- The image makers -- Theophrastus reborn -- Brunfels's book -- The irascible Fuchs -- In Italy -- The first botanic garden -- The long-nosed nit-picker -- Weaving the web -- Protestants prevail -- Gesner's masterpiece -- New pastures -- Plantin's team -- The last of the herbals -- English achievements -- The American connection -- The beginning of the end. ISBN 9780747582441.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. UK1st.edition.1st.impression.Fine in fine dustwrapper.An unread copy.Already into reprints.18/G 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

Illus (illustrator). 25.0 x 19.0cms 472pp colour illusts very good paperback & cover This book looks at the people who have tried to classify plants. It begins with Athens in the 3rd century before the common era and ends with Linnaeus. SALE PRICE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK1st.edition.1st.impression.Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper. 4.70.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 471 pp., index, bibliography, notes, appendices, a wide variety of period color and b&w ills. A fascinating detailed study of the development of plant nomenclature from ancient times through the 17th century. near fine copy in d.j.

24.0 x 16.0cms 434pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback (ex-librarry with scarred endpapers) & fine dustwrapper Charlotte (1713-1760) was the daughter of Colley Cibber England''s poet laureate. She was a cross-dresser performed at the Drury Lane Theatre was a strolling player and puppeteer and wrote her autobiography.

Illus (illustrator). 25.0 x 19.0cms 472pp colour illusts very good+ hardcover & dustwrapper This book looks at the people who have tried to classify plants. It begins with Athens in the 3rd century before the common era and ends with Linnaeus.

Illus (illustrator). 25.0 x 19.0cms 472pp colour illusts very good paperback & cover This book looks at the people who have tried to classify plants. It begins with Athens in the 3rd century before the common era and ends with Linnaeus.

xi+798pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. A near fine copy.

20.0 x 13.0cms 362pp very good paperback & cover This book investigates the superfreaks lowlifes charlatans and geniuses who shaped American culture in the late 20th century. It shows how Scorsese Robert Redford Terence Malick and Don Simpson ''simultaneous;ly strangled and liberated'' Hollywood.

Quarto, viii+472 pages, illustrated, original wrappers, a near fine copy. First edition.

394pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. First UK Edition. Signed by author on label pasted to title page.

Hardback. First print in this new edition. 6" x 4". Book and dust jacket are in near Fine condition. 'Nanny McPhee' sticker to the front end paper.

First edition. 400 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.

Quarto, viii+472 pages, illustrated, original boards in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition.

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Includes a 'Septimus Heap' publicity bookmark. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm, 93 pp in double-column format, colour ills. 748 lots. From the introduction: "John Sandler's collection of books on Military History of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars has been gathered over a period in excess of 65 years and contains over 5,000 in around 15,000 volumes. In the words of Dr. Donald Horward Director of the Institute of Napoleon and French Revolution in the Department of History at Florida State University in 1983, 'this collection is a tribute to the good judgement and commitment of John Sandler who has accumulated one of the finest personal libraries on the topic in existence'. An early fascination with military uniform at the edge of 6 years and the gift of a book about Napoleon three years later, led to John Sandler developing an intense interest in Napoleon Bonaparte's military career and this manifested as his lifelong dedication to accumulating books relating to this influential period. The collection includes rare journals, correspondence, memoirs, dispatches and diaries of the major military and political figures during the Napoleonic Wars." Near Fine.

Cloth. Dustwrapper. 607 Seiten. 8vo. Good condition. ISBN 074758110X.

large 8vo, soft cover, 472pp including index, bibliography, notes, chronology, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, slightly soiled at corners, otherwise all in very good condirion, no names or inscriptions. ISBN 9780747582441.

Hardback, 8vo, 433pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper. Light wear. ISBN: 0747574944.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. INTERVIEWS: 8vo 161pp., incl. index; pictorial wrappers; fine condition. AUTOBIOGRAPHY: 256pp., index; 4to; cloth in white dust jacket with a few spots of light soil; black & white photographs throughout. From the library of Irving Israel (aka Mark Anger). He or his wife Jan made a pencil note on blank facing title page, as they often did, for the 'date started' reading, and the date finished, here adding the birth date and place of Zinnemann.

Hardback, 16.5x24.25cm, 323pp. Very good condition (light wear; tanned page edges) in good dustwrapper (light wear and scuff marks; water-stained at spine and back cover; several 1cm tears, with some 1cm loss at front bottom edge). ISBN: 0747578028.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm, 63 pp, colour ills. 388 lots. Highlights noted included: "Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika., 1869-71 (lot 8); Godlonton's Introductory Remarks to a Narrative of the Irruption ofthe Kafir Hördes., 1835 (lot 10); a group of works by or on Sir Richard Burton (lots 47-66), including Sindh and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus, 1851 (lot 47) and Zanzibar, 1872 (lot 57); Amundsen's Sydpolen, 1910 (lot 80); Dixon's Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares, 1790 (lot 99); Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei, 1776 (lot 126); Browne's Ten Scenes in the Last Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1853 (lot 136); Camden's Britannia, 1695 (lot 156); Dionysius Periegetes' De situ orbis, 1478 (lot 166); Heude's A Voyage up the Persian Gulf, 1819 (lot 172); Donovan's The Natural History., 1793-1820 (lot 188); Shaw & Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, 1789-1813 (lot 194); Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds ofthe British Islands, 1891-7 (lot 242); Shelley's Birds of Africa, 1896-1900 (lot 252); Grew's The Anatomy of Plants, 1682 (lot 262); Roscoe's Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae, 1824 (lot 268); Donovan's The Natural History of British Fishes, 1802-8 (lot 277); Westwood's Arcana Entomologica, 1845 (lot 285); Stubbs' The Anatomy of the Horse, 1766 (lot 294); White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbome, 1789 (lot 296); Boyle's The Works, 1744 (lot 310); Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859 (lot 317); photographic portrait of Darwin, 1876 (lot 322); Euclid's Elementorum Geometricorum, 1537 (lot 331); Münster's Rudimenta Mathematica, 1551 (lot 333); Bauhinus's Anatomes., 1591 (lot 346); Crooke's Microcosmographia, 1631 (lot 354) and Raynalde's The Birth of Mankynde Othewyse Named the Womans Booke, 1565 (lot 378)." Very Good.

8vo, xii + 434pp. Original borads in predominantly red pictorial wrapper, very lightly superficially marked. A near-fine copy. First edition.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original red paper covers with black paper spine, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. ISBN 0747574944. Contains 433 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Laminated illustrated wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm, 74 pp, colour ills. 612 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Cricket (lots 1-382), including signatures and signed material by W.G.Grace, C.B.Fry, Fuller Pilch, Lord Harris, Gilbert Jessop, Lesley Ames, Godfrey Evans, William de Chair Baker, Fred Lillywhite, Alfred Mynn, Nicholas Felix, E.G.Wenman, Don Bradman, and the Cowdreys, signed menus, scorecards, albums of County Cricket Club ephemera, photographs (subjects ranging from W.G.Grace to David Gower), biographies, cigarette cards, histories, a particularly extensive collection of material relating to Kent (lots 103-208) including Blue Books & Minute Books, caricatures by 'Spy' (lots 261-265), collections of Wisden's Almanacks ranging from 1868-1991 (lots 284-360) and the preparatory design for Nicholson's portrait of Alfred Mynn (lot 378); Angling (lots 408-612), including books from the library of the late Bob Dunn (lots 408-541), including Blome's Fishing. Part V. The Rules for Angling, 1710; Churchill's Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida, 1904; Ronalds' The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, 1913; Bloch's Ichthyologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 1796; Lowe's A History of the Fishes of Madeira, 1843 and Willughby's De historia piscium libri quatuor, 1686; Barker's The Art of Angling, 1653; Howlett's The Angler's Sure Guide, 1706; Aldam's A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making", 1875 and Skues & Overfield's The Way of a Man With a Trout, 1977. Other Sports (lots 383-407), including Solleysell's Le Parfait Mareschal, 1682; Gibson & Pickford's Association Football & the Men who Made it, 1905; Clark's Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game, 1893; a section on the Olympic Games 1912-1980 (lots 392-400) including Die Olympischen Spiele, 1936 and Richardson's Racing at Home & Abroad, 1923." Short closd tear and abrasion to lower edge of front wrapper, otherwise Very Good.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 0747574529. Contains [xii] 188 printed pages of text with maroon end papers and green silk bookmark. Without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

first edition).Octavo,370 pp.,colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds. With the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, Gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuries. Birds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thomas Hardy, Kafka, Thoreau and T.S. Eliot. They've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and loved. Nor does Gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the Galapagos finches did for Darwin. Birds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat and Barry Lopez. Gorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, The Bedside Book of Birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soul.

8vo (20.5x13cm), hardback, 607pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (light wear, bumped, some creasing). Bumped, age-toned. Pictures available on request.