Search Results: Titles starting with S from The Antique Map & Bookshop

Bournemouth. Sydenham & Co. 1915 1st edition.. Size 4.75 x 7.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and bumped at ends. Slight browning to endpapers. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Two text page & one plate have small nick top edge. Else a clean and tight copy. 220pp. With 14 b/w photographs and illustrations. The history of St Peter’s, Bournemouth from the 1840s to 1915.

New York, Roycrofters, 1899/1900 1st Signed Ltd Numbered Ed. 696/940.. Softback, 8 x 6 inches. Dark green soft suede leather fine binding, with gilt lettering to front. Top page edges gilt. Brown silk cloth endpapers. In very good near fine condition. Some darkening to spine, some rubbing to edges of suede on cover else clean and smart. Signed and numbered by author behind title page. Attribution inscription to front endpaper “To Ernest Hartley Coleridge, with the Compliments of James Carleton Young. April 1902.” Page edges rough cut, else all very clean and tight throughout. A very good clean and tight signed copy. 132pp. Illustrated with a B&W engraved frontis portrait, decorative coloured title page and decorative coloured letterpieces. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920) was a British literary scholar and poet. He was son of Derwent Coleridge and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Educated at Highgate School, Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford. He did scholarly… Read More

London, Macmillan & Co., 1901. Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In red full calf leather fine binding, gilt paneled boards with “Haileybury College” crest to front, raised banding to spine, with full gilt decorations and green leather spine label. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to boards. Some minor rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Bookplate to front “E. Lyttelton 1904.” Some minor light foxing to edges of blank prelims/endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Pp. xii + 434

Nurnberg 1811. Unmounted. Size 17.5 x 23 inches. Maps Number 1 to 7 In very good condition. A few slight creases edges, right hand margins a little marked. Hand coloured,

London John Murray 1926 Nov Reprint. Size 6.5 x 4.5 ins. Bound in original light blue cloth covers with decoration to spine and front. Blind embossed to front board. In generally good condition. Spine slightly faded and rubbed at corners. Some slight fading to board edges & spine. A few small marks. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Pages generally tanned throughout, nice authors inscription under his name on title page, written in ink. Else inside generally clean and tight. 394pp; Cat.6pp;

Orr & Comp Amen Corner Paternoster Row Ca1870. Size of engraved surface: 25cm x 30cm. In very good condition. Some faint mark on edges. Some pencil markings and coloured underlining Uncoloured.

Little Brown. 2010 1st.. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Black endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Not price clipped). Slight browning to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 479 pp. With b/w photographs. The author describes the SS as an organisation of hard-nosed political fanatics who developed influence and power over both the military and police in Nazi Gemany. The book looks at their role in the Holocaust and focusses on some of the individuals responsible.

Southampton 1885. Coloured Borders Map Unmounted, with original text page. In very good condition. Two neat folds. Very Clean & strong impression. Engraved surface Size 50cm x 35cm

Orr & Comp Amen Corner Paternoster Row Ca1870. Size of engraved surface: 25cm x 30cm. In very good condition. Some coloured underlining Uncoloured.

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, London Limited Editions, 1992 1st Ltd. Ed. 67/150.. Hardback, 9.5 x 6 inches. Half bound with grey cloth to spine and marbled paper to boards, silver line edging and silver lettering to spine. In very good near fine condition. Cover clean and smart. Endpapers clean and bright, no penned inscriptions (price in pencil.) Signed and numbered by author on edition page. Some minor tanning to edges of inside pages. Else a very good clean and tight signed copy. 365pp.

Wurzburg, H.A. Eckert & Christian Weiss, ca1840. Tall hardback (folio) 14 x 10 inches. Halfbound crushed morocco and marbled paper to boards. Raised banding and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Corners bumped and slightly chipped, edges rubbed, partial cracks to leather on bottom end of spine. Some rubbing to boards and bottom rear edge. Endpapers cracked at front, small bookplate to top corner “Wendel.” Plates all very clean and bright throughout. Pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Title page & 40 mounted colour lithograph plates, annotated and blind-stamped on bottom edges.

Chapman and Hall Ltd. 1945 1st.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In blue cloth covers with silver gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened. Small tear to top edge. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. else a clean and tight copy. 208 pp. A young man dedicates his life to the pusuit of world peace, but faced with the reality of the threat from Nazi Germany, he joins the RAF.

John Murray. London. 1969 1st edition.. Size 6.75 x 9.5 inches. In yellow cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front and cartoon to front corner. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly darkened and rubbed and chipped around edges. Not price clipped). Slightly dust marked top edge. A clean and tight copy. Contains (xi)-blank, 184 printed pages of text with 8 full-page colour plates and monochrome illustrations throughout.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1925 1st. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Marbled maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt. In good condition. Some minor fading to cloth on spine. A couple of patches to cloth on top edge of boards, attempting to restore pattern on cloth. Endpapers clean. Some mild foxing spots else pages clean and tight. Else a clean and tight copy. 163pp. + 2pp adverts. Illustrated with a B&W Wood Engraved frontis by R.A. Garnett

Sussex, Douglas Pepler, ca1916 1st. Tall paperback, approx 11 x 7.5 inches. Light brown paper covers with black lettering to front. In very good condition. Edges of cover rubbed, some minor darkening and fading. Publishers note tipped in at front. Pages uncut on top edges. Side edges rough. PAges clean and tight. No inscriptions or marks. 24ppp. Illustrated with B&W wood-cut/block illustrations. Includes, St. George and The Dragon, Matthew In Greenland, and, A Story! (about an old witch and a burglar.) Stories written BY children.

London. The Folio Society. 2009. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. In red cloth with gilt design and lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. In plain black hard slipcase. In near fine condition with very good slipcase. Slight handling marks to slipcase. Else a very clean and tight copy. 522pp. With colour plates and b&w maps.

London, Faber and Faber Ltd. 1936 1st thus.. Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. In silk cloth covers with silver lettering and decoration to spine. Top page edges silver. Green endpapers illustrated in B&W. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good DW. (DW some fading to spine and front, edges rubbed with some small tears. Front flap price clipped. In protective sleeve.) Cloth faded on spine and around edges. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Some minor foxing spots to outer page edges, edges rough/uncut. Else pages all very clean and tight. Colour plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 323pp. With b&w chapter headings and footings, and 16 colour plates. Henry Williamson’s classic story of the life cycle of the salmon.

Phillimore. 2001 1st edition.. Size 7.5 x 10.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 134pp. With b/w photographs, illustrations, maps and plans.

Collins. 1937 1st edition.. Size 5.5 x 8.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with silver to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened with tears at ends. Slightly rubbed and creased around edges with small chips and tears. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Small marks and foxing spots throughout. 315pp. Third book in the author's 'Bramblewick' trilogy, the story of a small fishing community.

London, Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1904 1st Ltd Ed. 350 Copies.. Two Volumes. Tall hardback, 11.5 x 9 inches. Half bound with vellum to spines with paper spine labels, and light blue/grey paper to boards. Plain page edges and endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to vellum on spines, some rubbing and chips to edges of spine labels. Endpapers darkened on free-sides, with two previous owners bookplates “William Edward Oates 1897,” and “Robert Washington Oates.” Some mild foxing to prelims and title page in vol.1, with mild foxing to map. One or two occasional minor handling marks to inside pages else all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else very good clean and tight copies. 280 & 225pp. With 30 & 22 B&W photo illustrations on full-page plates (some 2 per page), and many smaller photo illustrations in text. Folding map at front of vol.1. Oates Memorial Library & Museum and The Gilbert White Museum.