Search Results: Titles starting with S from COBNAR BOOKS

Newcastle - under - Lyme, Printed for the Author, by W. H. Hyde,, 1832.. 1832 viii, 268 p. Engraved frontispiece. First edition. A second edition appeared in 1836. Publisher's green cloth with a chipped paper label. Spine a little faded and cloth marked but a vey good copy.

London, Hodder & Stoughton,, 1931.. 1931 328 p. Colour frontis., plates. Illustrations in the text. First edition. Publisher's black cloth binding, no dustwrapper. The spine lettering is faded and internally some signs of use. A large cache of ephemera is inserted, around 2 dozen items if the cuttings are included. Most important is a correspondence in 1945 between Mr. E. Robinson of Wimbledon with a number of barge owners regarding either passage in a working barge or the purchase of a barge for yachting. The barges named include Challenger, Hasteaway, British Oak, Fortis, Brian Wood and Tricolor. Edward Cory writes that his barge is '... engaged in carrying explosives for H.M. Government' from which one can suppose that her hull was tight. There is also a sketch on a calendar page for January 1945 of a barge sail plan with sail areas. Alongside is a calculation of the cost of each sail with the total of £159+ for a complete suit.

Halton, Truscott, Smith, Ltd.,, 1924. 1924 Folio. viii, 80 p. Coloured frontis., 124 plates, some with captioned tissues. Line drawings in text. First edition. No. 1600 of an edition of 1750. Rebacked with original spine relaid and original endpapers preserved. One corner bumped. Internally clean and tight. Loosely inserted is a catalogue of Halton and Company Limited publications. A very good copy.

Newton Abbot, , 1978.. 1978 xvi, 382 p. Small 4to. 191 plates, 76 line drawings and 28 plans. Third impression. A very good copy in similar clipped dustwrapper.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1887.. 1887 viii, 196, 32 publisher's catalogue of technical books. Illus. in the text. Publisher's green cloth, embossed and gilt. The spine with a chipped printed label. Adverts on the endpapers.The contents are very clean and tight. An excellent copy.

Churchman Publishing Co., Ltd, 1937. 1937 8vo. xiv, 66 p. Illustrations. Blue cloth, no wrapper. As issued. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise an excellent copy.

Printed by T. Bensley,, 1791.. 1791 4to. [6], 151, [3] p. Additional engraved title. First edition. Modern marbled boards with a paper label. Old stain to the engraved title, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Some names completed in contemporary manuscript.

London, John Murray, , 1832.. 1832 xiii, [1], 335, [1] p. Six engraved plates as the Contents list + three plates of flies and small wood engravings in the text. Contemporary half calf with marbled bords and endpapers. Spine gilt with wide, flat bands and a contrasting label. Leather with minor rubs only. Ownership inscription dated 1842 in pencil, with the same genrleman's occasional faint marginal marks also in pencil. A very good copy of this classic angling text.

Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Soner, , 1851 - 1870.. 1851 Three volumes. 22cm. Contemporary green half calf with marbled boards, edges and endpapers. The spines gilt in panels between raised bands, with two contrasting labels. Some rubbing to edges and the leather faded, but still a pretty set. The contents clean and tight, and show occasional toning of the paper.

London, Bibliographical Society, 1980. 1980 8vo. [8], 196 pp. Illustrations. A very good copy in publisher's cloth.

Sandgate, The author,, 1998.. 1998 48 p. Maps, illustrations. 21cm. Pictorial card wrappers. First edition. As new copy.

Oxford, Oxbow Books, , 2010.. 2010 xviii, 326 p. Maps, plans, diagrams, illustrations. Street maps on the endpapers. A4 format in the publisher's laminated boards. The text printed in two columns. A very good copy.

Faber and Faber, 1960. 1960 187 p. Second impression. Dustwrapper sunned, otherwise a very good copy.

London Published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus,, 1910. 1910 xviii, 116, [1] p. Contemporary binding in dark blue morocco gilt, by Bumpus. The spine gilt in panels between raised bands. The tan leather doublures are covered in rows of darker brown heart shaped onlays interspersed with small gilt stars and surrounded by a slightly lighter blue border onlay and the dark blue turn ins of the covering leather. Watered silk endpapers and gilt edges. Slight rubbing on the corners and some surface loss on the joints but still a beautiful book.

A Ratisbonne, Chez Matthias Kerner, , 1664.. 1664 12mo. 7, [1], 336 p. Contemporary calf, the spine gilt in panels between raised bands. Worn on the spine ends and corners, with loss. The boards firmly attached. Front endpaper removed. The last few leaves show an old damp stain on the fore edge. The text block otherwise clean and crisp. First published in 1649 by Elzevier. The text was contributed by a number of writers in both prose and verse, criticising the conduct of the religious wars at the end of the 16th century.

Scarborough, Published by John Cole ..., [1825]. 1825 [8], 148, [2] p. Additional engraved title page. 6 engraved plates and vignettes in the text. Bound in printed boards as issued, with a replacement spine in brown cloth. All edges gilt. Some soiling and rubbing to the boards but the contents are clean and tight. Armorial bookplate of Henry Ecroyd Smith 1823 - 1889, first Curator of the Liverpool Museum. The title page is undated but the book can be dated by the Prospectus for Cole's History and Antiquities of Ecton printed on the final leaf. This was published in 1825.

Scarborough Printed by T. Whiting; for W. Ainsworth, ..., 1818.. 1818 143 p. Two folding maps. 17 cms, Later half calf with marbled boards. Some signs of use but a very good copy.

Durham, Printed and sold by G. Walker,, 1807.. 1807 12mo. 144 p. Original boards, rebacked in cloth and paper restored on the edges and corners. Internally a few margins dusty, otherwise a very good untrimmed copy.

Rotterdam, Printed by J. Johnson, and sold by J. Cooper, in Fleet Street,, 1738.. 1738 8vo. [8], 152 p. Engraved frontis. By George Bickham. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary sheepskin. Spine with raised bands, gold lines and a contrasting lettering piece. Spine chipped at the head and small patches of leather lost on boards, but a clean, tight copy. Bookplate of Baird of Urie. First published in 1692 and reprinted as late as 1790, this is the fourth edition.

London, John Russell Smith, , 1849.. 1849 12mo. vi, 78 p. First edition. Publisher's green cloth with twochipped paper labels. Spine darkened. Internally clean and tight with neat stamp of a monastic library and an early owner's book label.