Search Results: Titles starting with E from P & B Rowan

"THE CLEAREST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM .. IN ANY LANGUAGE" first edition 4to. [10], 323pp., title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece plate ... [bound with] KERSEY, John The Third & Fourth Books of the Elements of Algebra. London: Printed by William Godbid, for Thomas Passinger: 1674 first edition 4to. [4], 416pp., title page printed in red and black, numerous woodcut figures. The two volumes bound together in modern half tan calf over thick boards (the originals?), spine panelled by gilt highlighted raised bands, panels gilt decorated or lettered and with a black morocco label gilt, marbled sides, portrait and title page a little chaffed and chipped at edges (without encroachment into the printed areas), mark from an old tape repair in their gutter margin, light foxing (mainly around the edges) throughout and occasional minor marginal water stains, minor worm trace in gutter margin of the last few gatherings. Generally a very good copy. WING K352 and… Read More

THE LEADING PRUSSIAN TACTICIAN - HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL ON THE BRITISH ARMY first edition in English tall 8vo. xvi, 334, [2 (errata & blank)]pp., 18 folding plates, contemporary bold tree calf, smooth spine panelled by double gilt fillets and with a maroon title label gilt, without the terminal advertisement leaf (as often), fine copy. Uncommon, especially so in such attractive condition. Inscribed at head of title page "Jon: Chetwood Captain/ Royal Queens County Militia/ Nov 14th 1793" with neat corrections in his hand scattered throughout. ESTC t113849 locates in 6 U.K. and 2 N. American libraries only (a few with duplicate copies, and many without the advertisement leaf at the end)."Von Saldern (1719-85) was an outstanding Prussian tactician who later turned to writing, von Saldern was of great importance in spreading Prussian tactical ideas through the armies of late eighteenth-century Europe. Having entered the army of Frederick William I (1713-40) as an ensign, at the age of… Read More

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH - A KEY WORK IN WESTERN EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT first edition in English, in part second issue 4 vols. 12mo. [2 (half-title)], xx, [2], 310; [4 (half-title & title)], 266; [4 (half-title & title)], 268; [4 (half-title & title)], 292, [48 (index)]pp., 6 engraved plates (including a portrait, four by Cochin, and one other), contemporary calf, spines with raised bands and tan labels gilt, 2 leaves in vol.IV (N9 and O2, both cancels) loose, minor silverfish damage at the foot of the joints of vol.1, label of vol.4 little rubbed. A nice fresh copy in its original state. ESTC n6260 The first two volumes were also issued dated 1762 under the imprint of R. Griffiths, T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt (usually found with vols. 3 and 4 of this 1763 printing). Two different English translations were also published in 1763.One of the most important works in the history of Western education. Translations into several European languages quickly followed the first printing in… Read More

HANDSOME COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BOLDLY SPECKLED CALF2 vols. tall 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 580; (iii)-(viii), 484, [58 (index)]pp., contemporary boldly speckled calf, smooth spines richly decorated in gilt in panels using two different designs, black lettering and russet numbering labels gilt, board edges gilt rolled, spines a trifle chaffed at headbands, some cracking at ends of some joints, but overall a very nice copy.Near contemporary pencilled shelf number "D198" of Lord Dunraven of Adare Manor, Co. Limerick, on endpaper.KRESS B5219This is edition incorporates the substantial revisions and additions which Malthus had made for his third edition of 1806. They are listed and described in full in his preliminary 'Advertisement' to that edition, also printed here. The most substantial of the changes made was that "The chapters which were the fourth and sixth of the second book are nearly rewritten, on account of an error into which the author had fallen in an attempt to estimate the fruitfulness of marriages and… Read More

ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK BRANGYN - DE LUXE EDITION - 100 COPIES ONLY
first illustrated edition thus Special Edition, one of 100 copies only signed by the Artist large 4to. 306pp. on thick wove paper (possibly hand-made) printed with very generous margins, 12 coloured plates with the coloured illustrations mounted on slightly stiff cream parchment sheets, numerous other illustrations throughout, original cream parchment backed olive cloth, spine very slightly marked with minor split at foot. Nice copy.
A classic of English travel literature in a most handsome edition, richly illustrated by one of the most highly regarded British artists of early twentieth century. Kinglake made the journey through Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon that made him famous in 1835, and Eothen was first published in 1844.

first edition very tall 8vo. xxiv, 384pp., 125 plates (many with 2 images, over 200 'graphic images'), original cloth of 2 colours with blue on spine and cream on sides, image of a submarine and gilt lettered on front cover, spine faded and somewhat speckled and rubbed, neatly recased.

FINE ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS & DETAILS first edition large folio (59 x 44 cms.) [4 (lithographed title & engraved dedication)], 63 lithographed plates (1 double page) of which 9 are coloured or have some coloured elements, some of the views of buildings printed in sepia and black, plus bound in at front the separately published 4-page folio 'Prospectus' with a one-page introduction and a list of the plates, original blown cloth, title in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine, double-spread plate with repairs to the margins, title page and some other plates with some smoke marking at edges, cloth bit smoke and water marked and bit worn at edges. The separately published, and rare, 'Prospectus' shows that the book was £5. 5s. 0d. when new.Waring (1823–1875), English architect and artist, in 1843 obtained a silver medal at the Society of Arts for designs in architectural adornments and after periods both travelling and working as an architect, "with Thomas R. Macquoid, .. went to Italy and… Read More