Miscellaneous

Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal Information: Comprising Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, Bible Knowledge, Chronology, with the Pronunciation of Every Proper Name

No date of publication. Text clean and binding steady. Boards show edgewear and corners are bumped. Spine scuffed with tear at top; gilt lettering still bright. Large book, will incur extra postage. Previous owner’s name in pencil on front flyleaf.

Best of Everything

Written by the Author of “Enquire Within”. Green cloth boards with red leather spine. Gilt titles to spine and decoration to front board. Small tear to top of spine. Marbled page edges.408 pages plus advertisments

Between Sun and Sand: a Tale of an African Desert

Text clean and binding tight though slightly skewed. Boards lightly marked and edge worn; spine discoloured with lengthwise crease and chipping top and bottom.

Between Ourselves: Some of the Little Problems of Life

Previous owner’s name in ink on front flyleaf. Minor marking on front and back boards but design on front board still clear and bright. Corners bumped and slightly frayed. Creases and small tears to top and bottom of spine. Spine slightly faded

Biblia: Das Ist die Gantze H. Schrifft, Alten und Neuen Testaments. Deutsch D. Mart. Luthers

Three parts in two volumes.Text in German. All pages with a ruled border, in double columns, German black letter text. Ornamental dropped capitals. Illustrated engraving facing Old Testament, separate title page for Prophets, one engraved illustration for Apocrypha, separate title page for New Testament. All title pages dated 1686. Boards in good condition, minor insect damage to lower edge of second volume. Volumes have been rebound and text block has been trimmed. Please contact seller for further details and a postage quote

Big Game Shooting

(The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes; 2). Volume 2 only. Front flyleaf missing; owner’s name in ink on half-title page. Pages inside clean, edges discoloured. Boards loose at hinges. Cloth illustrated boards have scratch on front and marks on back. Spine rubbed with small tears at top and bottom. Corners bumped.

Bilder aus der Wunderwelt Tropischer Schmetterlinge

Plates loose in book. Clean whole condition, spine slightly sunned.

Bishop Burnets History of His Own Time

Complete in 6 volumes. Leather with some wear to edges and volume 1 has spine missing. Some insect damage to end papers. Endpapers have slight foxing and a bookplate otherwise a tight clean set

Blackwater Fever

Green cloth cover with university logo in gilt. Cover is worn, and has been damged by insects . Firm copy. Some damage to fore-edge.

Blue Angels and Whales: a Record of Personal Experiences Below and Above Water

Clean whole copy with Miles-Bourke bookplate pasted to front endpaper.

Book Wallpaper


Available in 5 different styles.

Size: strips of 125 x 20cm, boxed with paste included.

Bottles and Bygones, a Guide for South African Collectors

In very good condition. Colour photographs and illustrations of Bottles, tubs, dolls heads and jars produced in South Africa until 1920.

By Strength of Heart

No. 217 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Neat pencil markings in some sections of the text, otherwise clean and binding tight. DW chipped top and bottom, some tears with two large pieces missing on back panel. DW spine browned.

Caernarvon, the Gateway to Snowdonia, Official Handboek

Includes one pull out map.

Calliope or the Musical Miscellany: A Select Collection of the Most Approved English, Scots, and Irish Songs, Set to Music

Original 18th Century full leather binding. Recased. Bookplate of Hume of Auchendolly Sporadic foxing throughout. A clean and sound copy Title with vignette. Very good firm copy.

Cambridge

Foxing to pages.

Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopedia of Domestic and Social Economy

4 Volumes bound as 2. No date of publication. Leather spine and foredge corners. Back board loose on vol I. Vol II binding is tight. All text clean with no loose pages in either volume. Previous owner’s bookplate on inside front board on both vols. Large vols, will incur extra postage.

Catalogue of Coins in the Panjab Museum, Lahore: Vol. I Indo-Greek Coins

Previous owner’s name and date in ink to the front fep. Minor insect damage throughout. Pages are age toned. Some random soiling of the leaves throughout. Contains twenty black-and-white plates. Some insect damage and foxing to the endpapers. Boards show general wear and scuffing, slight fraying of the corners and top and bottom of spine. Spine slightly faded.

Cheristelyke Onderwyzingen

Leather and marbled boards with some wear to boards. Endpapers have been repaired.With 13 copper plate engravings

Circus, Gedichte Von Walter Schwyzer, Lithographien Vo Karl Madritsch

Folio size cover, 40cm x 30cm. Lithograph on front and back cover, slightly spotted. Title page plus 7 loose pages of text including the page stating that this issue is number 10 and bearing the signatures of both Madritsch and Schwyzer. ( loose pages bearing signed lithographs by Madritsch.