Search Results: Authors starting with B from COBNAR BOOKS

London, Thomas Charde,, 1596.. 1596 4to in 8s. Three items in one volume. Bound in eighteenth century half calf, rubbed . Some wear on edges and corners, front joint tender at head but boards firmly attached. Contents clean and tight, with early marginalia in places. Occasionally trimmed close to catchwords. Babington's works on the Commandments and on the Lords Prayer date from his time spent in the 1580s as chaplain to the Herbert family at Wilton. He published his notes on Genesis in 1592 whilst serving as Bishop of Llandaff. The second edition of 1596 is expanded to more than twice the length of the first printing.

London, Printed by J.F. for William Lee, and are to be sold at the Great Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet, , 1651.. 1651 Folio. [12], 218, [26], 36, [8], 64 p. New Atlantis and History Naturall and Experimentall with part titles. Lacking the frontispiece and the additional engraved title page. Rebound in the 1950s in half black morocco with marbled boards with some rubbing to the lower corners. Title page laid down.

London, Printed by S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. Griffin for Thomas Lee, at the sign of the Turks-head in Fleet street, between Mitre Court and Ram-Alley, over against Fetter-Lane, , 1676.. 1676 Folio. [14], 340, [3], 222-227, [7], 32 p. Engraved portrait and an additional engraved title page which is signed Tho. Cecill sculp. Part titles to New Atlantis, History natural and experimental, Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals and The novum organum. Bound in contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked at some time in matching goatskin. Light wear on the corners. The spine with five raised bands with the old label re-laid. Internally a clean and well margined copy. Armorial bookplate of William Wrightson of Cusworth in Yorkshire. M.P for Aylesbury and High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1819-20.

London, William Pickering, , 1836.. 1836 [8], xxx, 350, [2] p. bound with the first and final blanks. Contemporary brown half morocco binding, with marbled boards and endpapers. The spine with raised bands and titled direct. Light rubs to the edges and corners and with a small bump on the top edge of the front board. The contents are clean and crisp and to all appearances unread.

London, Reeve Brothers,, 1847.. 1847 x, 138 p. 18 hand coloured plates and three uncoloured. First edition. 26cm. Later half calf with marbled boards. Spine gilt between raised bands, with a contrasting label. Text pages lightly age toned around the margins but the plates unaffected. A fine copy. Probably the finest hand coloured plates of fungi to be found in an English book. Not in Cagle or Bitting. '..this important and savoury food...' - Preface p.vii.

Sheffield, Printed for the Author,, 1847.. 1847 [4], 712, x; [2], 662, ix, [1] p. Two volumes. Hand coloured folding map in Vol. II. Publisher's embossed black cloth, gilt. Neatly rebacked with the original spines re-laid and endpapers renewed. A very good set, complete with the scarce map.

Basileae apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, MDXXXVII, 1537.. 1537 4to. 323, [9] p. Many wood engraved plates, some full page. Later vellum over boards, the spine titled in ink. There is a small meniscus of mouse damage on the fore edge of both boards, otherwise the binding is in good condition. The title page has a small paper fault which affects four letters of text, with evidence of a larger fault in the blank margin of the lower corner. The text is generally clean and crisp with occasional early underlinings and marginalia. There is an old water stain visible on the fore edge of leaves in signatures g - i.

Robert Hale,, 1982. 1982 288 p. Map, 107 illustrations. A very good copy in similar dustwrapper.

London: Printed for J. Buckland, [and 29 others],, 1782.. 1782 [956] p. The old vellum covering is soiled but still very strong, being applied over the original calf binding. Internally clean and tight, with all the original endpapers present. A very sound copy. ESTC T87513 . Alston V, 121.

Printed for T. Osborne [and 22 others],, 1766.. 1766 8vo. [912] p. Contemporay calf, rubbed. Spine with raised bands, rebacked with corners and edges restored as necessary. Internally clean and tight, with all the original endpapers present. A sound copy of the most popular pre - Johnsonian English dictionary. ESTC T87510. Alston V, 115.

London, Otto Limited, , 1907.. 1907 82 p. 28cms. Plates, many in colour. Adverts. Decorated limp covers with a colour onlay. The spine ends with a little loss and the covers dusty round the edges. Light spoting to the text pages, mostly at the edges.

Leeds, Printed and published by Edward Baines,, 1822 ; 1823.. 1822 Two volumes. [16], 654, cxliv ; [16], 654, ii pp. 19cm. Later quarter calf with marbled boards. Slight rubbing on the corners, otherwise in excellent condition. Neat library accession stamp to the verso of the title of Vol. II, but no other markings. A very good and entirely useable set. The maps mentioned on the title page were issued separately and are seldom found eith these two volumes.

Brighton, Fisher Publications, , 1980.. 1980 194 p. Illustrations. Publisher's hardback binding in its dustwrapper. Some toning of the paper on the edges. A very good copy.

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Liverpool , Published by the Author. , 1852. 1852 xvi, 844, 12, 13, [1] p. three folding plans, plate, List of Subscribers. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. Neatly rebacked at some time and with light wear on the corners. A very presentable copy of the first and only edition .

London: John Russell Smith, , 1865.. 1865 [2], 72, [2] p. Two colour printed pictorial wrappers on yellow paper. Adverts on the end leaves and wrappers. The wrappers are dusty and with minor chips. The spine is chipped with some loss. The paper is uniformly toned. A sound copy and a scarce survival. The Introductory Letter to the first edition is dated 1847 but I have not traced anything earlier than the 4th edition, 1860.

Printed, and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner,, 1681.. 1681 4to. 44 p. 22cm. Disbound. Old ink stain to title and paper lightly toned throughout. From the library of the historian Sir John Plumb. ESTC R3068.

Imprinted at London, by [S. Mierdman for] for Johan Bale, in the yeare of our Lorde a M.D. & LI. and are to be solde wythin Paules chayne, at the sygne of S. John Baptist, , 1551.. 1551 [4], 78, [2], 120, [3] leaves. The woodcut of the Author presenting his book to Edward VI appears on the general title and is repeated on the verso of fol.viii of the second part. Bound with the blank at the end of First Part but without that at the end of Second Part. ESTC notes the spelling 'legenades' on the general title but not 'ed oubted' for redoubted. The general title remargined on the fore edge and *ii also has an old marginal paper repair. Bound in 19th century calf, the boards decorated in blind and gilt. Modern reback, decorated to style with the old endpapers retained. All edges gilt. Bookplate of James Dix Biblical Collection dated 1850, and the 20th century bookplate of Christopher Rowe. Dix's library was sold by Sotheby in 1870.

Oxford, Printed by W. Jackson, for the Author,, 1752.. 1752 4to. Xvii, [1], 472, [2] p. List of Subscribers. First edition. Large paper copy. Recent half calf, with marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and a contrasting lettering piece. Random browning of some sections of the text as usual. Old shelf mark on title and preserved front endpaper. A very good copy. ESTC t94574.

Methuen & Co. Ltd.,, 1906. 1906 xvi, 283 p Publisher's red cloth, gilt. Cloth lightly sunned and light spotting of the prelims., otherwise a very good copy.

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd.,, 1945.. 1945 x, 147 p. Map, plan, illustrations. Publisher's hardback binding. A very good copy in a damaged dustwrapper which is now sleeved.