Applied Hydro- And Aeromechanics by L. Prandtl, Ph.D - 1934

Handsome, fine-binding edition of "THE GEORGIAN ERA: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, Who Have Flourished in Great Britain, from the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth." The volumes are dated 1832, 1833 and 1834; Vizetelly, Branston and Co.; London. Complete in four volumes. Three-quarter leather bound with marbled covers, page edges and end papers. Each volume contains a frontispiece portrait. The volumes contain dozens of biographical sketches of prominent English men and women including Adam Smith, Isaac Newton, Jonathn Swift, Robert Burns, Thomas Paine, Captain James Cook, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Gainsborough, etc. The contents are grouped into the following categories:VOLUME I: The Royal Family, The Pretenders and Their Adherents, The Church, The Senate, DissentersVOLUME II: The Army, The Navy, Jurisprudence, Medical ScienceVOLUME III: Voyagers and Travellers, Science, LiteratureVOLUME IV: Political Economists, Rural and Domestic Economists, Painters, Sculptors,… Read More

Contains 82 stanzas (per the Persian translation) and a closing paragraph by the author. Shoghi Effendi first translated this work into English in 1927 with the help of two others, and the first Russian translation is said to be written in 1933, therefore as this contains a preface by Shogi Effendi, this book was published near or after 1933 (Shoghi Effendi, Range and Power of His Pen, by Nakhjavani, p. 54-56 and Baháʼí News. No. 320. October 1957, p. 4). Half polished black calf with gilt rule over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Unpaginated. 4 x 5 1/2 inches.

Small quarto (11 1/2 X 8 inches) Japan: Getumeikai, 1959. First Edition. (5) 59 + (6) pages printed in Japanese and English on hand made Japanese vellum, with 26 individual fabric samples (25 are tipped in, the 26th sample is the cover material for the hardcover binding), plus a wood block print illustrating a woman in Japanese wardrobe working at a hand loom. Number 180 of a limited edition of 200. Housed in an ink blue stiff folder with bone ties. At the bottom of each page is a description of the sample, its pattern, its weave, and its dye; in addition to a small woodblock illustration of the plant from which the fabric is derived. Very good condition.

"In selecting the sample fabrics for this little collection, I renewed afresh my pledge, which I hope is not merely a nostalgia for lost things, but a positive creation of the 'new' through a dedicated study of the old."

Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover. As New. Book unread and in crisp, clean and collectable condition/Insignificant rubbing on slipcase.

This is an anthology partly made up of Anthony Berkeley's work for Punch magazine in the 1920s. The chapters are made up to be various lessons in a short story writing course i.e. Lesson 1 - The Short Story Analyzed, Lesson 2 - The Simple Love Story. The collection also contains pieces on writing essays, topical articles and on how to sell your work to editors.It goes without saying that all of these pieces are works of satire and include parodied versions of the story the writer is trying to "teach".The collection also includes 32 illustrations by George Morrow.280 pages, HardcoverPublished January 1, 1925, 2nd PrintingAnthony Berkeley Cox wrote numerous and particularly highly regarded works of detective fiction under two pen names: as Anthony Berkeley, he took the British Golden Age detective novel to fresh heights, while as Francis Iles, he was a pioneer of psychological suspense fiction with a seasoning of cynical wit. The pieces gathered together here are examples of his journalistic side.… Read More

Cream binding with gilt title on the spine. Gilt Ripon arms on the front board.
Number 21 of 100 copies printed. By Lucian Smith, Bishop of Knaresborough.

Brown leather binding with red title plate, gilt banding and decoration on the spine. Gilt and embossed decoration on both boards. Superb binding by Earnshaw and Harrison, 3 Westgate, Halifax. First Edition 'On Saltonstall moor [...] Soon after I had left the moor, on the right side of the road leading to the village of Luddenden, I saw what is generally called Robin Hood's Penny-stone, for the country people here attribute every thing of the marvellous kind to Robin Hood, as in Cornwall they do to king Arthur. Thus, for instance, he is said to have used this stone to pitch with at a mark for amusement; and to have thrown the standing stone in Sowerby off an adjoining hill with a spade as he was digging; but I confess, that some of the common people will smile when they relate these stories; they are not quite so credulous now as their great grandfathers were. This last mentioned remain is a stone of several tons weight, laid upon a massy piece of rock, with a large pebble of a different grit between… Read More

Tan leather binding with green and black title plates, gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Tan marbled boards.

Brown leather binding with raised banding and gilt title on the spine. Original by Berhard Varenius, this one translated by Sir Isaac Newton in 1672.
Second English Edition 1734 A compleat system of general geography: Two volumes complete. Since improved and illustrated by Sir Isaac Newton and Dr Jurin; and now translated into English; . By Mr Dugdale. The whole revised and corrected by Peter Shaw, M.D. Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (1622, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony – 1650) was a German geographer. His early years (from 1627) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick. Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg (1640–1642), and at Königsberg (1643–1645) and Leiden (1645–1649) universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in 1649. He then settled at Amsterdam, intending to practice medicine. But the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman, Willem Schouten and other Dutch navigators, and his… Read More

Tan calf binding. Two volumes. dimensions are for one volume.
First Edition A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with lists of their works
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. The youngest son of the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, he became the 4th and last Earl of Orford on his nephew's death in 1791. His barony of Walpole descended to his first cousin once removed of the same name but Baron Walpole of… Read More