Miscellaneous

Old Miscellany Days

A selection of stories from Bentley’s Miscellany, with 33 illustrations from the original etchings on the steel. Marbled end papers. Foxing throughout, including to some images, spine worn with a few tears

On Secret Patrol in High Asia

Text mostly clean; a few pages have foxing. All plates present but map of Persia and Afghanistan missing. Front and back boards fairly clean with gilt decoration on front board still bright. Corners bumped. Spine faded and soiled and gilt lettering dulled. Long tear on front hinge of spine and creases to top and bottom edges.

Ontwerp Van Eene Grondwet Voor De Vereenigde Nederlanden

Original copy of the Draft of a Constitution for the United Netherlands. Letterpress, 50 pages, 22.5cm x 13cm. Ex-library, with library’s bookplate and canceled stamp to the verso of the title page, and canceled stamp to the margin of one other page only. The loose sheets of this work have been stapled into a later brown card folder. Please contact seller for more info and scans.

Oranje En Zijn Keurvendel in 1572

Brown cloth covers with gilt illustration. Spine missing, loose covers. Some foxing throughout.Full colour illustrations.

Orient Stars: a Carpet Collection

Some curling at top corner. Cover shows signs of wear

Oriental Rugs and Carpets

Dust jacket is in poor condition with bottom section of spine missing and tape stains from where it had once been mended. Tears and folding all round

Out of the Past : The Istanbul Grand Bazaar

Dust jacket is worn, with a small tear on the spine. Slight discolouration to endpapers.Black and white illustrations and photographs.

Pall Mall Catalogue

Catalogue from Hamptons and sons in Pall Mall East, London. Some repairs,section clipped out of page three, of registared grates.Illustrated with photographs and coloured etching.

Papers of the South African Literary Society

Number 94 of 510 copies. A facsimile of the 1824 edition. Slight age toning.

Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting

Leather spine ,with marbled boards, worn.Previous owners inscrtion in ink, plus hand drawn book plate tipped in. The Hundred of Wanting comprises of 6 parishes in the county of Berks.Include fold out Hyde family tree .

Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy

No spine. Covers held on with tape. Previous owner’s name on title page.

Pictorial History of the Rifle

Contains numerous black and white photographs. Tape marks to the end papers and feps. Some bumps and wear to the corners and spine of the boards.

Pilot

Neat clean copy.

Ploughing a Furrow

Articles originally appeared in the Farmer’s Weekly from 1973 onwards. DW rubbed and edgeworn with tears (small pieces missing).

Pocomoto: Buffalo Hunter

Light marking on fore edges of pages and endpapers. Ink signature on front fep.

Polfyntjies vir Die Proe

Inscription on the fep and name on the verso of title pg. Very good condition other than the fact that the fep’s are quite badly foxed. The rest of the book is free from foxing. Minor edge wear and closed tears to the dw.

Practical Surveying and Field Work : Including the Mechanical Forms of Office Calculations, with Examples Completely Worked Out

Past owner’s name on front endpaper. Light general wear to boards, lower corners bumped and spine a little faded.

Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume XXX, 1898 - 9

Corners bumped, wear to top and bottom of spine. Binding slightly shaken. Interior of the book is in very good condition

Quelques Enseignements Sur La Therapeutique Homoeopathique

2 seperate volumes, Vol1: D’Apres 30 Ans De Pratique, avec 6 schemas, pub. 1951. Vol2. Second Cycle, pub. 1954.

Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, During a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior

Beautifully rebound with green leather spine and foredges, and marbled boards.