Search Results: Titles starting with O from Wadard Books PBFA

Maidstone: Christine Swift Bookshop, 1985 134pp plus index. Well illustrated in black and white.

London: J. And A.Arch, 1825 "The present volume is, in fact, intended not so much for the information of the publick in general, as for the use of the junior members of that Society." 334pp. Contemporaneous binding and hand written spine label.

Oxford in the High Street: W. Jackson, 1754 xvi, 413pp. 24 full page engraved plates, one folding inclusive of the frontis and a map of the County of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands.
The content consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity, in Britain and the British Isles: exemplify'd and prov'd by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, faithfully drawn on the spot, and engraved according to their scales annex'd.
A summery of the Religious, Civil and Military State of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest illustrated by the plans and elevations of several ancient castles, an eastern view of the Monastery and site of St. Michael's Mount and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language.

A good quality half calf and marbled rebind sometime in the mid 20th century.
Book size 355x230mm

London: Frederick Warne, 1978 192pp illustrated in colour and black and white.
145x95mm.

Elizabeth Stanton Anderson, 1963 The marine drawings of Samuel Ward Stanton many of which were originated in the late 19th century. 40pp plus covers. 35 captioned illustrations.

London: A&C Black, 1911 Australia, New Zealand and South Seas. viii, 204pp, folding map. 32 full page illustrations in colour captioned beneath the image.

Paris: Charpentier, 1841 307 pages with some occasional foxing. Three quarter vellum with marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with title panel slightly chipped. Marbled end papers with armorial bookplate to front pastedown.

London: Odhams Press, 1960 How your car works and how to service it. First published in 1949, a useful reference for cars of the period. 320 pages, well illustrated.

London: Gurney & Jackson, 1894 A natural history of Raw Materials and Drugs used in the Perfume Industry including Aromatics used in Flavourings.
Intended for the use of Growers, Manufacturers and Consumers.
523pp plus index. Many pages still uncut.
Size 230x150mm

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1854 xv, 403pp gilt edged, with engraved frontis plate. French language text. Frontis tissue aged and some nominal light foxing otherwise remarkable clean. Sun fade to the upper board but not affecting spine.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1853 xii, 758pp gilt edged, engraved frontis plate. Eleven plays each preceeded by and engraved plate. French language text. Some random light foxing otherwise very good throughout.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1854 Vol.1 - xii, 798pp gilt edged. Contains nineteen works most being preceded by an engraved plate. Vol.1 - 781pp gilt edged. Thirteen works plus poetry, with plates after Desenne and Vernet. French language text. Some light random foxing otherwise very good throughout.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1853 Precedees d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ouvrages par L.S.Auger. xii, 720pp gilt all edges. Twelve fine engraved plates with tissue guards plus frontis portrait. Some occassional foxing otherwise very good.

Paris: Louis Conard, 1914 Poemes - Livre Mystique - Livre Antique - Livre Moderne - Poemes Philosophiques. Susanne - Helena - Fragments Inedits. Notes et eclaircissements de M.Fernand Baldensperger. xxiv, 420pp. French language texts.

London: The Country Book Club, 1965 Botanical and horticultural reflections seasoned with village gossip. 296 pages.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Undated but circa 1893. Three black and white line plates, 160 pages plus publishers list. Grey cloth with two colour graphic and "Fauntleroy" style child with dog. Minor cockling to back board. Spine slightly sun darkened.

New York: Harry N.Abrams Inc., 1992 The illustrated story of 17 very different houses - mirrors 3 centuries of American life - that are united today as properties of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The account begins in the 1740s at Drayton Hall, a South Carolina plantation, and continues through to the construction and rescue, of a small home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a model of a modest residence for all Americans. 240 pages, lavishly illustrated. Heavy, subject to postal supplement.

Milano: Marcatre, 1992 An historical appraisal of the architecture and internal environment of the Office, as expressed through a series of exhibitions jointly organised by Marcatre, a leading Italian office furniture manufacture and the Faculty of Architecture at Milan's science university. This is a post exhibition record with texts in 9 languages with two chronological photgraphic sections dealing with office exteriors and interiors. Some of the examples from the earlier periods are partucularly interesting. Scarce item

Netherlands Indies Batavia: N.V.Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maattschappij The Royal Packet Navigation Company, or, to call it by its Dutch name, "Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij" not merely constitutes an important factor of the economic life of the Netherlands Indies but is also an intrinsic part of the Government aparatus of this island empire. The issue of the KPM Yearbook is intended to give a general survey of the ports touched by KPM Lines and the hinterland they govern. 321pp illustrated in monotone and two colour. Some loss of gilt to the cover logo and some nominal tropical bore holes to the inside covers otherwise very good throughout.

New York: Harry N.Abrams, 1994 Although ojime were originally functional accessories of kimino apparel, they were beautiful as well as useful and were superbly crafted in a wide variety of materials believed to possess magical and medicinal properties. 64pp in colour.