Search Results: Authors starting with O from Aardvark Rare Books

Eugene, Oregon: John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press (University of Oregon), 1940. Limited, Signed. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Pumpkin boards measuring approximately 13" x 9". Frontispiece by Georges Plasse. Rubbing to extremities. Inscribed and signed by John Henry Nash on front pastedown. Designed by John Henry Nash, during his tenure as professor of typography at the University of Oregon. The type used is Garamond, hand set by Betty Jane Thompson and William Cassidy, students in typography. Written by Edward F. O'Day and originally printed as a Zellerbach Keepsake. Copy # 20 of 100 copies printed.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Graham Oakley. Oblong octavo, 8.75 in. x 11.75 in. Unpaginated. Green cloth boards with black title to spine. Very light rubbing to board edges. Superb dustjacket, protected in mylar. Oakley's colorful art brings to life a brave soldier's quest to find gasoline for the king's heirloom car.

London, England: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel, and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey, 1680. First Edition. Binding Fair; Text Very Good. Leatherbound. Quarto, 29 cm.x 18 cm. Full contemporary speckled calf, double ruled in blind, with a decorative pattern stamped adjacentfront and rear joints. Scuffing to front and rear boards, and some cracking to joints. Contrasting red spine labels for title; date stamped in gilt (below). Five raised bands (six compartments) Some sections of these different pamphlets show mild age-tanning, but in the main, pages are very bright. One page shows both a cut and a tear, resulting in the loss of two or three words of the Errate to the Second Pamphlet (P. 51) Nice Large print. Wide margins. Titus Oates (1649 -1705), also called Titus the Liar, was an English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles I. This resulted in a mass… Read More

Eugene, OR: Ann Obie, 1980. First Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. 5.5 x 8.5 in., pp. 114. Beige paper cover with farm and nearby plow drawing by Gordon Obie and title to cover. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Creasing to cover; rust stains near staples. Small stains and thumb-wear to fore-edge and front free endpaper. OCLC 7407884. Foreward by Mary Obie. Contents: Montana, Our first year- 1910; Proving up 1911-1912; Good year, bad year 1913-1914; The big hailstorm 1915-1916; The Yoctorowic family during World War I and after; Mail, transportation, and schools in Montana; Chester Joplin 1910-1914; Memories of homesteading days; My life after the big hailstorm of 1916; The Arizona years; The Oregon years.

London, England: Downey & Co. Limited, 1896. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 8.9 in. x 5.6 in., pp. xix, 340. Red cloth boards with gilt title in frame to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Sunning to spine. Shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Previous owner's signature, dated 1896, to title page.

London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Matching set of two: Octavo, 9 in. x 6 in. Each illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispieces. Green cloth boards with black bands stamped to top and bottom of boards. Gilt title to front and spine. Blue topstain. Rubbing to extremities. Corners lightly nudged. Black endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate and name to front pastedowns. Volume I: pp. xix, [1], 335, 1-64 (advertising). Volume II; pp. xii, 361. Bookplate reads: "Society of Writers to her Majesty's Signet." As well, "Signet Library" written in pen on top of black front pastedowns. Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell (21 May 1745 - 9 July 1833) was the uncle of Daniel O'Connell "the Liberator." Because of the Penal Laws (Ireland) of the time, which forbade a Catholic to have any education or profession, he, like many other ambitious young Irishmen, went to the Continent for an education, and remained abroad. He entered the service of the… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: J. Christie, 1812. Third edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo, 8.7 in. x 5.1 in., pp. [12] (subscribers), iii - xlv, [3], 344, [20] (index). Illustrated with an 8.5 in. x 13.5 in.foldout map opposite page 172, entitled "Scotia Antiqua, Or A Map of Ireland Agreeable to the Times of Ptolemy The Geographer". Tree calf with gilt title on black panel, and gilt double-bars, on spine. Rubbing to extremities. Light crackling to spine. Chip to base of spine. Corners nudged. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Hinges and spine are tight. Charles O'Conor (1764-1828), Irish antiquary and librarian ... was born at Belanagare on 15 March 1764. He developed "studious instincts, and was sent by his father in 1779 to the Ludovisi College in Rome, where he remained until 1791, and obtained the degree of D.D. He was in 1792 appointed parish priest of Kilkeevin, co. Roscommon... In 1798, he was appointed chaplain to the Marchioness of Buckingham... O'Conor had previously attracted… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: O'Donoghue & Co. / M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Octavo, 7.6 in. x 5.2 in. , pp. xvii, [1] (errata), 333, [8] (advertising). Rebound in forest green cloth boards with gilt title to spine and bandlines to head and tail.. New endpapers. Unmarked interior.

Dublin: Printed by the Executor of George Abraham Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and Jane Grierson, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1756. Leather-bound. Very Good Minus. 12mo., 5 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in. Full contemporary brown leather. Corners slightly bumped. Moderate wear to extremities, binding very sound. age-cracking to surface of boards. Spine leather heavily rubbed away. Chipping to bottom of spine. 7 tooled bands, gilt rubbed away to 3. Edges neatly trimmed close to text. pp. [242]. Contemporary or near contemporary ink inscriptions to front pastedown, 13 lines. Gift of Hill Coulson to James Morewood. Ink inscription continued on to rear free endpaper, 10 lines. Occasional pencil annotation throughout. Nicely laid paper, lightly tanned and very clean throughout. Has not showed up at auction since 2006, and only one copy found in libraries worldwide (University of Kings College). The Book of Common Prayer is an Anglican liturgical text that comprises… Read More

Holborn, England: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1868. Paperback. FAIR ONLY. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Original blue paper covers,Fading and wear to spine. Front paper cover VERY chipped and DETACHED. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode of London. Paperback Original. At time of publication, the Indexes to Patents were, "so numerous and costly as to render their purchase inconvenient to a large number of inventors and others, to whom they have become indispensable. To obviate this difficult, short abstracts or abridgments of the Specifications of Patends under each head of Invention have been prepared for publication separately, (nearly 62,500) and so arranged as to form at once a Chronological, Alphabetical, Subject-matter, and Reference Index to the class to which they relate. This series embraces all Inventions relating to Saddles and saddlery, pillions and pack saddles, saddle cloths, housings, gambadoes, girths, stirrups, stirrup-bars, stirrup leathers, bridles, bits,… Read More

London, England: J. Dodsley, 1788. The Fourth Edition. Leater. Covers Fair; Textblock Very Good.. 4th edition. Boards detached but present. Polished leather. 5 raised bands. iv,-270, 259, [9] pages. 23cm. Very light age-tanning throughout. Although a later reprint,it is interesting for the weight it gives to various topics. For example, it begins on the first page discussing in worried tones the American war and especially the danger to Canada. Later it becomes for confident (arrogant?) in discussing the events in New York. The title page of the first section (The History of Europe), bears the contemporary signature of "Eben Huntington" followed by the date "1789". This book almost certainly belonged to Ebenezer Huntington (1754-1834), a Connecticut native who served during the American Revolution who participated in the Siege of Boston, marched with Washington to New York, fought in the battles of Rhode Island and Springfield (New Jersey), Witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis, and was promoted… Read More

London, England: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 8.5 x 11 in., pp. 184 + 36 + 6 (advertising). Illustrated with 36 black and white photographic plates of uniforms, insignia, etc.. Purple boards with embossed double frame, floral corner-design in blind to front and back, and emblem and title in blind to front. Advertising to front and rear endpapers. Rubbing to extremities. Small closed tears to front free endpaper. Mull (netting beneath endpaper at hinge) showing on front hinge, but spine is tight and holding well.

Dublin, Ireland: for The Irish Archaeological Society, 1846. Hardcover. Good Plus. Small quarto, 9.5 x 7.75 in., pp. xiv + 469 + 25 (Irish Archaeological Society meeting notes). Illustrated with frontispiece map of Iar Connaught and fold-out genealogical chart (17 x 22 in.) of O'Flaherty family. Contemporarty purple-brown cloth with double frame and elaboarate floral design in blind to cover. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Sunning to edges of covers and spine. Corners nudged. Spotting to preliminary pages. Half inch tear to bottom of front joint. Only very occasional spotting throughout. Two inch closed tear to inside margin of chart.

London, England: A. Hamilton, 1778. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Matching set of two volumes: Quarto, 10.9 in. x 9 in. Contemporary full calf with thin gilt frame to boards. Gilt title to black and burgundy panels, and many decorative gilt bandlines, to rebacked spine. Rubbing and scuffing to boards. Bottom corners nudged. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown. Volume I: pp. xv, i - lvi, 307, [12] (index). List of 469 subscribers. Light spotting to preliminary pages. Open tear to bottom of page i (does not impact text). Volume II: pp. 416, [11] (index). Light spotting to half title and title page. Bookplates read: "Ex-libris Ramsgate Monasterii St. Augustine", a fiomer Benedictine Abbey located in Kent, UK. Sylvester O'Halloran (1728-1807) was a surgeon and antiquarian in Limerick, Ireand. He was an expert in the diseases of the eyes and head injuries, and was a chief supporter of the literary society in Limerick. "O'Halloran's interest in the arts began with his collection… Read More

London, England: J. Murray, 1772. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Quarto, 10.6 in. x 8 in., pp. xx, 384. Illustrated with four fold-out copper engravings. Rebound in dark morocco with tolling in blind over marbled boards. Gilt title on black panels to spine. Four raised bands to spine. New endpapers. One inch open tear to bottom corner of title page. Interior unmarked. Sylvester O'Halloran (1728-1807), born in Limerick, was a renowned surgeon and historian. Having studied in London, Leyden and Paris, O'Halloran attempted to rectify the great lack of surgical services both in his native Limerick and in Ireland at large. In 1761 he was one of the founders of the Limerick County Infirmary and is most highly renowned for being responsible for the establishment of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1784. Along with these achievements he had a passionate commitment to education, research and surgical skills. His career as a surgeon was complimented by an interest in the arts, which began with his… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. Twenty-third Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 320. Spring green cloth boards with dark green title to spine. Rubbing to extremities; bottom front corner nudged. Very slight spine lean; light fade to spine. Previous owner's signature in red ink to front pastedown. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket, with a few small chips; four inch crease to back of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. Continues the story of the McLaughlin family from Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka", particularly Ken, and Flicka's ugly white colt, Thunderhead, who grows up to become an incomparable racehorse, king of the wild horses, and center of an absorbing story story of wild adventure. (from the dustjacket).

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.75 in., pp. 319. GLight green-gray cloth boards with gilt and dark green horsehead image and title to front and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners bumped. Unmarked interior. Small closed tears and creases to dustjacket top edge. Chips to top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Light sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. The third novel in the series about the McLaughlin family first introduced in O'Hara's My Friend Flicka.

New York: Harper and Row, 1962. Stated First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Octavo. Three-quarter bound decorated leather over blue marbled boards. Five raised bands (six compartments).Gilt lettering and mountain motif to four of the compartments. Some scratching to marbled boards, and one small nick to leather on rear board. Lovely two-toned marbled endpapers, echoing exterior. Bookplate of E.H. Ted Wolfe with gaelic lettering, affixed to front pastedown ("Buineadh au Leabhar so do dh", roughly translated as "This Book Belongs To..." E.H. Ted Wolfe. "First Edition" printed in ink to front second free endpaper. Third blank bears TWO inscriptions: 1) "To Ted Wolfe With Best Regards - (signed) Jack Olsen" and 2) "To Ted Wolfe from Charles E. Galloway 23 Oct. 1962. The daring, impossibly dangerous high-altitude rescue of Claudio Corti from a mountain in the Swiss Alps.

Dublin, Ireland: The Irish Archaeological Society, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Quarto. 9.5 in. x 7.5 in., pp. xix, 546, 1-29. Handsomely rebound in half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on black and burgundy panels to spine. Decorative gilt bars, and four raised bands, to spine. New endpapers. Light age-toning to pages. No interior marks. Starting p. 265, top edge of leaves uncut. Charles O'Kelly (1621-1695) was an Irish soldier and writer. O'Kelly was born at Screen or Clonlyon, Aughrim, County Galway, son of John O'Kelly and Isma Hill, daughter of Sir William of Ballybeg, County Carlow. He was educated at St. Omer. He first saw action in Ireland in 1642. He inherited Aughrim in 1674, and was elected member of parliament (MP) for Roscommon County in 1689. He again fought, this time as a colonel, in the Williamite War in Ireland, serving at Aughrim and Limerick. He later authored Macariae Excidium, or the Destruction of Cyprus, containing the Last Warr and Conquest of that Kingdom, which… Read More

London, England: Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, Bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhill, 1684. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 7 1/2" x 4 3/4". Six works in one volume. Full contemporary speckled calf, double ruled in blind.. Scuffing to edges and corners, and heavily chipped spine with considerable loss of leather. Bottom headband broken. Armorial bookplate of John Headlam, MA. to front pastedown endpaper. The four works include: * Satyrs upon the Jesuits: Written in the Year 1679. And Some Other Pieces by the Same Hand, Octavo, pp. [8], 148 ESTC R3086 * Some New Pieces Never Before Publisht. By the Author of the Satyrs upon the Jesuits, pp. [10],134, [2] ESTC R12528 * Poems and Translations. By the Author of The Satyrs upon the Jesuits, pp. [6], 215, [1] ESTC R188712 * Remains of Mr. John Oldham in Verse and Prose, pp. [24], 80, 83-130 (ESTC R3038). Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, "Henry Milner's book given me by my Brother in Law John Martindale in the Year of… Read More