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Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Etat : New.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. A Look to the Past. Book.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Obsession. Book.

Etat : New.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 101 pages. 5.50x0.23x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Issue #1. Original publisher's stapled sheets, Very Good with toning, light wear and a check mark to the top upper corner of the first sheet. A fanzine intended for the February, 1948 FAPA mailing.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Kay and Steve love scouring antique shops for their new home. One day, they stumble upon a strange pair of binoculars that hold a mystical power. Soon, buried emotions and long-forgotten secrets are stirred from the past, testing their marriage and rippling into others' lives. Kay must decide how far she'll go to heal old wounds.A short novella by debut author Tina Cooper. When Kay and Steve scour antique shops for their new home, one irresistible relic calls to her. Soon, its strange power begins stirring buried emotions and long-forgotten secrets, testing their marriage and rippling into others' lives. Gifted with visions of the past, Kay must decide how far she'll go to heal old wounds. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Quarto. [iv], 38pp. With the half-title lacking in this copy. Signature B on p.[1] appears below "Some" in the last line. Disbound. ESTC T1703. Most likely the first edition, since ESTC T98749 was intended to form part of a second volume of Churchill's poems (per ESTC entry). 0.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Obsession is the story of one mans ambition that straddles the fine line between passion and self-destruction. Geoff Long, a young London journalist, dreams of writing the ultimate critical study of a music legend. But what begins as youthful enthusiasm soon deepens into an all consuming fixation that shapes, and ultimately threatens, his relationships and his life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Small 8vo. Volume 12 for 1762. Pp xxx 135 [1]. Contemporary speckled calf. Chipping to head and tail of spine, front hinge tender. Heber's annual was published for 18 years from 1751 to 1768. Loder 1228.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 2 text volumes only of 3 (lacks pl vol) VG+, 1st ed, 1850, in red cloth, spines faded, gilt titles. Vol 1, map frontis, [3], (vi-xii), [1], 2-466 pp, 9 pls (includes 1 map). Vol 2, [3], (vi-vii), [1] pl list, [1], 2-821 pp, [1], (iv) subscribers list, 9 pls, both volumes lack half titles, evidence of removed book plate to both fpds, numerous illustrations within text. (235*148 mm). (Allibone 333. Anderson 346). Vol 1 contains a History of the Design. Section II. The Preliminary Experiments. Section 111. General Principles of Beams. Section IV Specific Experimental Inquiries and numerous tables and sketches within the text block. Volume 2 contains chapters on - Section V. History of the Design. Section VI Details of Construction of the bridges. Section VII The Construction and Erection of the Bridges. Section VIII Strength and Deflection of the Tubes. Section IX The Tides followed by an Appendix, which goes into the Contracts and Cost of the Bridges, Persons Employed in the Works and the Index plus numerous tables and technical sketches amongst the text blocks. Clark was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, December 1850, and contributed many papers to their Proceedings, being awarded a Telford medal in 1866 for his paper -On the hydraulic lift graving dock-, and a Watt medal in 1868 for those on -The durability of materials-. Two years' residence in Buenos Aires, Paraguay, and Uruguay, provided material for his Visit to South America (1878). (ODNB). CLARK Edwin (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Format, quarto, 281mm. Physical description, [8], i - viii, [1] 6 - 274. Uncut. Light water staining to the head margins of page iii (of the unsigned first gathering) - p.14 (ie. sig. B4). Pages [5] - 8 of the unsigned first gathering is a Subscribers List. Catchword in error on p.80. The rest of the text is occasionally lightly spotted, the verso of the last leaf is a little dusty. Later ( nineteenth century?) half calf very lightly rubbed and abraded, the spine with seven raised bands and red morocco title label, later endpapers.Library bookplate of Airedale College Library on the front pastedown. Overall a very good copy of a seemingly rare book. The ESTC (online 11/2025) locates only 1 copy in the UK - Cambridge University Libraries; and Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York, in the USA. OCLC First search (0nline 11/2025 ) repeats the same holdings. The Dutch National National Library also holds a copy. Online research has failed to reveal any details regarding the author.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. General title and frontis, iv - 778pp + (18pp) index, .at end of July 2nd title" Extraordinary" Poems Bound with engraved monthly title pages and the general title some erratic pagination collates complete on catch words. Some very occasional ink notes to margins. Contents clean and tight. Bound in contemporary full tan calf tight. chipping to the head and tail of the spine some scuffing to the boards in places, a very good copy. …

Folio. Full dark brown diced calf with decorative diamond shaped design within octagonal double-rules, both with small decorative circles gilt at points, raised bands on spine in gilt-ruled compartments, dark brown title label gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto blank, verso frontispiece portrait of Mace by W. Faithorne after Hen. Cooke), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] ("The Epistle Dedicatory"), [iii] ("An Epistle to all Divine Readers"), [v] ("The Preface"), [ii] ("A Short Epistle of Thankfulness, To all my Noble Subscribers"), [iv] ("The Subscribers Names"), [i] (blank), [i] ("A Short Epistle to the Reader, concerning the Authors several Reasons for Writing This Book"), [i] ("An Advertisement, Concerning the Value and Price of the Book"), 272 pp. Musical examples throughout. With decorative woodcut initials and headpieces. With a list of distinguished subscribers including [Sir] Isaac Newton ("Mr's of Arts, and Fellows"), James Lawes and Thomas Lawes ("Masters in Musick"). With three full-page engraved plates, as follows: - A 50-stringed lute that Mace called a dyphone, or double-lute (a combination lute/theorbo) designed to compensate for the author's increasing deafness (p. 32) - A "Description of a Musick-Room" demonstrating Mace's interest in acoustic challenges (p. 239) - A table organ, together with a considerable quantity of lute music in tablature, some composed by Mace (p. 243) With early signature "B. Barker" to head of preliminary leaf and dense manuscript notes in an early hand (in all likelihood Barker's) to verso of free front endpaper and blank recto of following leaf regarding "the Fingerboard of the Lute," complete with illustration depicting the "Open Strings" to the "9th Fret." Together with an oblong octavo leaf in early manuscript identified as being "The Notation from The Tablature, p. 121 His Mistress." Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; skillfully rebacked; endpapers slightly worn and stained. Minor wear' light uniform browning; p. 154 mis-numbered 159 and p. 159 mis-numbered 154. A very good, wide-margined, and crisp copy overall, with strong impression. First Edition. Cortot p. 117. Gregory-Bartlett p. 160. Hirsch I, 334. Wolffheim I, 793. RISM Ecrits pp. 523-524. With portrait in first state (distinguished by the use of "Clericus" instead of "Clerici" at foot). Mace was a noted English lutenist, composer, singer, and writer. This important source of information on music in England during the second and third quarters of the 17th century is written in a highly readable, idiosyncratic style, presented in three parts. The first discusses psalm singing and the music of the parochial and cathedral churches; the second, and major, part of the work is entitled The Lute made Easie, and discusses the choosing of an instrument, tuning, repairing, performing on, and composing for the lute, with extensive musical examples and works for performance in lute tablature; the third part concerns the viol and includes a discussion of performance practice of consort music.…

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

Etat : New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Full Title "The Most Delectable, Scriptural, and Pious History of the Famous and Magnificent Great Eastern Window (According to Beautiful Portraitures) in St. Peter's Cathedral York: Previous thereto is a temarkable Account how the ancient Churches were differently erected by two famous Kings; the present built by five excellent Archbishops,one extraordinary Bishop, with others; the Names of sepulchred Personages, and important Affairs worthy Remembrances. A Book which may be Styled, The History of Histories. Succinctly Treated of, in Three Parts. I. Of the Coelestrial Hierarchy in Resulgent Glory; with Patriarchs, Prophets, Evangelists, Apostles, Saints and Martyrs; likewise togtheir Holy Living and Dying. II. The glorious Manner of the Creation; the Antediluvian State of Nature; Noah's Ark; Erection of Babel; King Melchisdek's Reception of Abram; Isaac blessing of Jacob; Moses providentially found by Princess Merisia; his meeting with Aaron and appearing before the Throne of her Royak Father; Joseph and his brethren receiving the patriarchal Benediction; the sudden Immersion of the Egyptian Monarch with his Host in the Red Sea; the Death of Samson; Fall of Goliath and Absalom's Suspension. III. The Revelation of St. John; agreeable to the predictions of Daniel: Not only concerning the mighty Empires of Assyrians, Medes, Persians etc. but the Spiritual Kingdom of Our Redeemer Christ Jesus, even to his tremendous Appearance at the most solemn Tribunal of Judgment. Likewise is added A Chronological Account of Some Eminent Personages, therein depicted, anciently remarkable fot their Learning, Virtue and Piety." Full leather with scuffed corners and joints, front cover is detached along with a folded reproduction of a fronfis showing the window. Banded spine with gilt lettering, no front free end-paper nor half-title-page. Title-page is stained. pages are darkened but otherwise clean. Original pages 65 to 72 are missing and have been replaced with facsimile pages. Pages numbered 177 to 184 plus fold-out follow these, pages of these numbers but different content are present in their rightful places. Pages continue to page 196. The index and table of remarkable Names, Places &c and the List of Subscribers follow this and are followed by a prologue of 24 pages, a single page advertising "The Instructive, Poetical and Entertaining History of the Ancient Militia in Yorkshire" and 3 pages illustrated advertisement for Books ptinted and published by the Author. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50325011071. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. A fascinating account of the cotton trade and related activities in Manchester in the early nineteenth century. Details of the inventions, technical improvements and the inventors. To which is included the antiquities of the town, a description of Manchester and Salford and an account of the late improvements. v, 302pp, xii being the list of subscribers.Frontis plate and vignettes within the text.…