Alexander, William (but not here named)

PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions.

London, Thomas M'Lean, plates published Jany. 1813 by J. Murray Abermarle Street. 1830 (approx. acc. To BL) Hand-coloured plates (50) of people in various occupations the TRADES eg.Fireman, chimney sweep, milkmaid, herald, Dragoon, rifleman, newsman gipsy. Octavo (240x159mm) half red crushed leather with wide raised bands gilt + gilt title to spine, marbled covers (edges worn/marbled paper rubbed). Titlepage + plate list + 100 leaves printed one side only and each hand-coloured plate facing the leaf describing the trade, military rank or position. Last plate witn 1cm tear to lower margin. Endpapers with foxing and some browning but all other pages with minimal sign of use and bright colouring with some gum heightening, some gilt and some appropriate background in colour also. *A very good copy of the second edition (circa 1830 according to British Library catalogue).

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Book number: V75348

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: trades hand-coloured plates English

(ALEXANDER, William):

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians.

London, Howlett and Brimmer for Thomas M'Lean, ca. 1823, in-4to, 1 f. + IV + 65 ff. (descriptive text in English) + 64 handcoloured aquatint engravings each with protective blank leaf, uncut, very fresh copy without stains, contemporary red half morocco with corners, leather-spine with gilt title and gilt filets, marbled plates, title label on upper cover. Fine copy.
¶ Work based on Miller's 'Costume of the Russian Empire' (itself based on Georgi's 1776-1780 work). The first 12 plates depict people of Finnish origin and plates 13 to 35 describe the Tartars. Plate 36 to 50 cover people from Siberia and the East while the rest depict the Mongols and other small tribes from all over the Empire. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Colas 2359; Hiler, 16; Lipperheide Kaa 32.

Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 99633

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: illustrations, illustrations, illustrated illustré Russia Russie, Russia, Russland, Ru§land engraving, engravings gravures costume, costumes costumes

ALEXANDER WILLIAM

picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Austrians [ 50 Hand Coloured Plates ]

London, Printed for Thomas M'lean. 1814. Half Calf, 8vo. Book measures 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. Collation, xv,50 coloured plates, each plate with accompanying text. Bound in modern half calf, calf corners, cloth boards, raised bands, gilt tooling, leather title label, marble endpapers. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, frontis lacking secition of margin, laid down, title page slightly grubby, last plate grubby, accompanying text page grubby, with loss on corners, laid down. Text and plates, [ other than those mentioned ] in very good clean condition. A good copy, in a very good binding. F. Very Good.

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Book number: 097682

Catalogue: History

Keywords: austria

ALEXANDER, William; MOLEVILLE, Bertrande de

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians

London: Printed for John Murray.. by W. Bulmer, 1814. With Fifty Hand-Colored Engraved Plates ALEXANDER, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings. With descriptions. London: Printed for John Murray.. by W. Bulmer, 1814. Octavo (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 238 x 165 mm.). [iv], xv, [i, blank], [100] pp. Fifty hand-colored engraved plates, each with a leaf of descriptive letterpress. Plates with imprint: Pub'd June 1, 1813, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street. Contemporary half black straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style. Minimal foxing and very slight offsetting from plates to text only. Early ink signature on front blank. An excellent copy with the plates watermarked J. Whatman 1811. The plates are copies in reduced size of those in Bertrande de Moleville's Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria (1804). Cf. Hiler. William Alexander (1767-1816) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver. The hallmarks of his work, usually executed in watercolors, were clearness and harmony of color, simplicity and taste in composition, grace of outline, and delicacy of execution. He accompanied the Macartney Embassy to China in 1792. His other principal works were: Views of Headlands, Islands, etc. taken during the Voyage to China (1798); drawings based on Daniells' sketches, for Vancouver's Voyage to the North Pacific Ocean (1798); and the descriptive plates to Sir John Barrow's Travels in China (1804), and Voyage to Cochin China (1806). In 1804 he published Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians, and in 1805 The Costume of China, illustrated by 48 colored engravings. These works were so well-received that in 1814 he re-published these books in small format. Colas 78; Hiler, p. 16; Lipperheide 832. .

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Book number: 04958

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: MOLEVILLE, Bertrande de Costume Voyages and Travels Women Fashion

[Alexander, William]

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians: Illustrated in Sixty-Four Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions

London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer & Co. 1814. First edition. Three quarter later navy blue pebbled morocco over blue cloth boards, four raised bands with gilt links, four medallions, and titles in gilt, recent endpapers. v, [132] p. 64 lvs of plates. Illus. with 64 hand-colored plates. Sm. 4to. The exquisite plates are "copied from a series of engravings begun at Petersburg in 1776, and finished in 1779, under the care, and at the expense of C.W. Müller" (preface). They range over the Russian peoples in the 18th century including: seventeen plates of the Finns and related tribes; eighteen of the Tartars; fifteen of the nations of the Samoyeds and fourteen of the Kalmuks, Mongols and other smaller tribes. A later, more common edition, appeared about 1823. Tooley 377. Lipperheide Kaa 32. Colas 2358. Hiler 16. Minor foxing to the title page else a fine bright copy.

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Book number: 40268

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: European History, , Art, European History, Costume, Russia, Book

ALEXANDER (William)

Plain and Easy Directions for the Use of Harrogate Waters.

Printed for E. Hargrove; and Sold at his Shops in Knaresbro' and Harrogate, [Knaresborough?]. [c.1780]. Second Edition, corrected and improved, [iv],92pp., library stamp on verso of title-page, cont. half calf, marbled sides, a little rubbed. This second edition is not mentioned in Boyne, the first edition having been published in 1773. Boyne, The Yorkshire Library, p. 255 (first edition).

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Book number: 33092

Keywords: YORKSHIRE SPAR WATERS CHEMISTRY MINERAL WATERS HARROGATE SCIENCE HYDROLOGY

Alexander, William C.

A Pottery of the Middle Roman Imperial Period in Augst (Venusstrasse-Ost 1968/69)

Basel, Augst, Liestal, Stiftung Pro Augusta Raurica, 1975. 85p. b/w illus. plans, original stiff printed wrappers (Forschungen in Augst, 2). .

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Book number: 039497

Keywords: Roman Switzerland Augst Pottery Ceramics Decorative Art Classics

BUTLER JOAN PSEUDONYM ROBERT WILLIAM ALEXANDER

Ready Cash

London, Stanley Paul. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) lacks fep, stationer's stamp foot of paste down, book is tidy but used, has some light foxing to the closed edges and minor to endpapers, minor handling soiling to boards, 200pp. Good/No Jacket.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 012172

Catalogue: Humour & Cartoons

Keywords: Humour Humor British Fiction Modern First Edition Collectable Collectible Pseudonym Robert William Alexander

ALEXANDER, RICHARD D. & PAINTINGS BY JOHN MEGAHAN & FIELD SKETCHES OF FOXES BY WILLIAM D. BERRY

The Red Fox and Johnny Valentine's Blue-Speckled Hound

Manchester, MI: Woodlane Farm Books, 2010. Hardcover. ISBN: 0971231427. Illustrated by John Megahan & William D. Berry. Color; 11 1/4 x 8 3/4; 89 pages; AUTHOR SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Hard cover is green with gold lettering on spine. NEW book. Pages clean and tight. DJ; in mylar jacket. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures. Traces the intertwined lives of a red fox, an unusual hound pup named Speckles, a boy named Johnny Valentine and his fiddler friend Tennessee. 'Dr. Richard D. Alexander, Theodore H. Hubbell Distinguished University Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Insects, Museum of Zoology, Emeritus, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a pioneer in the study of the evolutionary basis of human behavior, died August 20, 2018 at age 88.' ; Signed by Author. New in New dust jacket .

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Book number: 14449

Keywords: 0971231427 Signed Books. Author Signed Book; Michigan People; Michigan Authors; Juvenile Literature; Juvenile Animal Stories; Dog Stories; Fox Stories; Wild Animals;

Alexander, William.

Report upon the Inspection of Mines in the Western Mining District of Scotland for the Year ending 31st December 1880. Mines. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines, to Her Majesty's Secretary of State, for the Year 1880. [Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty].

London: printed for George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1881. Pp 91-108, text tables. Disbound. 32 cm x 22 cm. Age browned, chipping to leaf edges.

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Book number: 34106

Alexander, William Hardy

Seneca's Dialogues I, II, VII, VIII, IX, X (Miscellaneous Moral Essys); the Text Emended and Explained

Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1945. Pp. 49-92 (with the original pagination), original stiff wrappers (University of California publications in classical philology, 13:1). .

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Book number: 010890

Keywords: Seneca Classics

Alexander, William Hardy

Seneca's Epistulae Morales: The Text Emended and Explained (I-LXV)

Berkeley: University of California, ca. 1960s. University of California Publications in Classical Philology, pp. 57-86. Very good in stapled paper wraps, cover missing. .

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Book number: 12-1664

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BUTLER JOAN PSEUDONYM ROBERT WILLIAM ALEXANDER

Set Fair

London, Stanley Paul. 1952, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) small inscripiton to fep, 239pp, dusty closed edges, lacks dust jacket. Very Good/No Jacket.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 007906

Catalogue: Humour & Cartoons

Keywords: Humour Humor British Fiction Modern First Edition Collectable Collectible Pseudonym Robert William Alexander

Joan Butler [Robert William Alexander]

Set Fair

London, Stanley Paul & Co. 1952 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this entertaining novel by Joan Butler, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Written by Robert William Alexander under the pseudonym of Joan Butler. Alexander used this pen name for his satirical style, which echoed other much loved authors such as P. G. Wodehouse and Thorne Smith.'Set Fair' is indicative of this satirical style and tells the story of a group of individuals in Caipan, in the Caribbean Sea. Bound in the publisher's cloth with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor shelf wear only. Boards have sprung a touch. Light scattered spots to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is also very smart, with light edge wear, with tape reinforcing the head and tail of the spine on the verso. Light sunning to the spine and the odd light mark, mainly to the rear. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 904Q41

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Joan Butler Set Fair humour Robert William Alexander Set Fair None

BUTLER JOAN PSEUDONYM ROBERT WILLIAM ALEXANDER

Space to Let

London, Stanley Paul. 1955, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) unclipped dust jacket with chipping loss to spine ends, rest of wrapper lightly rubbed or soiled, book is tidy but used, has some foxing to the closed edges and some page margins, 191pp. Good/Good.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 011004

Catalogue: Humour & Cartoons

Keywords: Humour Humor British Fiction Modern First Edition Collectable Collectible Pseudonym Robert William Alexander